A team of Child Rights focused NGOs on Wednesday rescued two children accused of witchcraft at Okopedi Market, Okobo in Akwa Ibom.

Senior Magistrate Rosemary Kanyip of the Kubwa Senior Magistrates’ Court in FCT, on Thursday sentenced 35-year old security guard, Innocent Adoga, to five months imprisonment for fraud.

The Yobe Independent Electoral Commission (YOSIEC) said on Thursday that it has obtained updated voter register from INEC, preparatory to the local government council elections in the state in June.

Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday in Abuja reiterated that the Federal Government was committed to tackling unemployment and poverty in order to fight terrorism and other vices. Jonathan gave the assurance while declaring open a two-day Peace and Security Summit organised by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). The president, who was represented by the […]

AC Milan have welcomed Mario Balotelli to the club following his arrival from Manchester City with a cheeky reference to the ‘Why Always Me?’ T-shirt the striker famously exposed in a 2011 derby against United.

Gunmen with explosives attacked a police station outside northern  restive  city of Kano, killing a policeman and a civilian, police said Thursday.

THE South East zonal leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday said it has rejected attempt by former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, to rejoin the party, insisting that he had not been readmitted into the party.
This came as Chairman of the party in Abia State, Sen. Emma Nwaka, accused the former governor of using fake membership card to re-enter the party, saying his return would add no value to party in the 2015 elections.

Galatasary of Turkey and Elephant of Cote d’ Ivoire defender, Emmanuel Eboue, has boasted that his country will eat the Super Eagles of Nigeria like ‘super fried chicken’ when they meet on Sunday in one of the quarter finals matches in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations holding in South Africa.

THE Benue State Police Command, yesterday, arrested the pastor of a new generation church in Katsina-Ala (names withheld) for illegal possession of fire arms and assault on the church’s accountant.

THE recent threat by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, to pull out the umbrella body of Christians, the Christ-ian Association of Nigeria (CAN) may have come to many Nigerians as a surprise, given the present state of political precipitate in the country.

EX-NIGERIA star Jonathan Akpoborie has said that Eagles will need a miracle to beat Cote d’Ivoire on Sunday.Nigeria will take on Africa’s top ranked team Cote d’Ivoire on Sunday night in Rustenburg for the chance to reach the AFCON semi-final.

Policemen at Makinde Division in Lagos, have arrested three men who allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl, last August in Mafoluku area of Oshodi.

NIGERIA will be 100 by January 1, 2014, a date that marks the British amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, some say for administrative convenience, to form the country called Nigeria.

A group of suspected pipeline vandals, at the early hours of yesterday, engaged men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in a gun duel at 7th Avenue, FESTAC Town, Lagos.

STEPHEN Keshi had many reasons to be happy after beating Ethiopia and romping into the quarter finals of the on-going Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa. He scaled through a Nations Cup first round.